English > Fungi: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | The taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants. |
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| Synonyms | kingdom Fungi, fungus kingdom |
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| Category of | Tremella reticulata | A jelly fungus with an erect whitish fruiting body and a highly variable shape (sometimes resembling coral fungi) |
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| annulus, skirt | (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar |
| saprophytic | (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter |
| Members | Eumycota, division Eumycota | true fungi |
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| Lichenes, division Lichenes | Comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae |
| Myxomycota, division Myxomycota, Gymnomycota, division Gymnomycota | slime molds |
| Phycomycetes, Phycomycetes group | A large and probably unnatural group of fungi and funguslike organisms comprising the Mastigomycota (including the Oomycetes) and Zygomycota subdivisions of the division Eumycota |
| fungus | An organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter |
| fungus family | Includes lichen families |
| fungus genus | Includes lichen genera |
| fungus order | The order of fungi |
| Broader | kingdom | The highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped |
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| Spanish | reino fungi |
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| Catalan | Fungi |
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